My Favoite quotes

2006-09-10T00:58:00.000-07:00

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest occomplishment. - Ralph Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Emerson

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -Vernon Law

When i hear someone sigh, "Life is Hard" I'm always tempted to ask, " compared to what?"
-Sydney Harris

Instead of asking what you think you ought to do to become a better woman, ask what makes you come alive? What stirs your heart?- John Eldredge

good quote

2006-07-22T23:04:00.000-07:00

The best things in life are unseen that's why we close our eyes to cry, kiss, dream... -*-

Happiness

2006-03-30T20:24:00.000-08:00

"Before you talk about what you want- Really appreciate what you have before it's gone."
-Ethan Daniel

"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way."
-Unknown

"To be able to find joy in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness."
-violate Parra

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
-Hugh Dowris

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing you will be successful."
-Herman Cain

"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"People are just about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
-Abe Lincoln

risk

2006-02-17T18:19:00.000-08:00

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -William Shedd

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what make life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine

"when you can't see, go as far as you can and then you can see further. You can't see the end without the travel."

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George Halas

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert Francis Kennedy

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills

"The thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down but the staying down." Mary Pickford

"You always pass failure on the way to success." Mickey Rooney

"I will tell you there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like a metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have only been some tremendous lessons."
-Oprah Winfrey

Love quotes from movies

2006-01-19T16:06:00.000-08:00

"I think I'd miss you even if we never met." - The wedding Date

"I'd rather fight with you than make love with anyone else." The wedding Date

"That moment when you kiss someone and everything around you becomes hazy, and the only thing in focus is you and that person. And you realize that that person is the only person that you are supposed to kiss for the rest of your life. And for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky you found it and so scared that it will go away, all at the same time." - Never been kissed

"I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." -Notting Hill

"If God wants me with him, there is nothing who will stop him." -Beth, Little Women

"You don't need Scores of suitors, just one, if he's the right one." -Amy, Little Women

"There are somethings that are nothing more than what they are, they aren't meant to last. They just take their place in your heart and make you a little smarter next time." -Alex and Emma

"I guarantee that we'll have tough times and I guarantee that at some point we'll both want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine I'll regret is for the rest of my life. Because I know in my heart you are the only one for me. -Runaway Bride.

The key to success

2006-01-12T20:06:00.000-08:00

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." -Bill Cosby

"Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value." - Albert Einstein

" You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -Beverly Sills

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."-Robert Francis Kennedy

"Shyness has a strange form of Narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform is truly important to other people." -Andre' Dubus

Words of Wisdom

2006-01-09T20:35:00.000-08:00

Always speak well of people and you need never to whisper.

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisors they succeed. -Proverbs 15:22 NIV

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But a wise man is he who listens to counsel. Pro. 12:15

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - John Bunyan

We believe in prayer. Then why don't we pray more? The real reason is, we have nothing to pray for. We have everything we want without praying. The supreme tragedy of most people is that they want so little and they are satisfied with almost nothing.
-Charles Allen

Don't hold to anger, hurt, or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
-Leo Buscaglia

Good stuff from Wayne Gordon

2006-01-05T22:31:00.000-08:00

These are quotes from one of my Favorite books, Real Hope for Chicago. If you haven't read it..I think you should. It's about an amazing inner city ministry taking place in Chicago.

"...Money and prestige are no match for the joy of being involved in an active ministry that changes lives."

"I'd rather be a damn fool at the center of God's will than a genius any where else."

"God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason."

"Church is not about doctrines or denomination or nice buildings. It's about people committed to Jesus Christ who gather together to praise God."

"Simply persuading people to become Christians should never be the only goal of ministry."

This is his philosophy of ministry

Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have:
But of the best leaders
When their task in accomplished
Their work in done
The people will remark
"we have done it ourselves"
-Anonymous Chinese Poem

Compassion

2005-12-28T22:02:00.000-08:00

"Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears."
-D.P. McNeil

"You are not the person God needs to use, you are the person God wants and chooses to use."

"If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified. There is nothing noble the human mind has ever hoped for or dreamed of that will not be fulfilled. One of the greatest strains in life in the strain of waiting for God."
-Oswald Chambers

"The best indices to a person's character are how he treats people who can't do him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back."
-Abigail Van Buren

so simple truths

2005-12-15T20:30:00.000-08:00

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." -Elbert Hubbard

"When you're content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." -Lao-Tzu

"Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by." - George Shultz

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." -George Shultz

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
-Bill Cosby

2005-12-07T17:41:00.000-08:00

"The package may not always be wrapped the way you want it, but that doesn't change the surprise that waits inside."

"Whenever God takes us through a challenging time, we can endure the pain if we cling to the hope that in the end we will discover that it was all for a purpose."
-Leslie Ludy (When God Writes Your Love Story)

"This journey of pain mixed with hope is the essence of what singleness is about. It 's not easy But has a profound purpose. And someday, with love in His gentle eyes, the Lord will reward you for you faithfulness."
-Leslie Ludy

"Listen kid. A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you aren't enough without it, believe me, you won't be enough with it."
-Cool Runnings

"You don't need scores of suitors, just one, if he's the right one."
-Amy Marsh Little Women

"If love is a shelter, i'm going to walk in the rian."

a boost of confidence

2005-12-05T11:02:00.000-08:00

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you become great."
-Mark Twain

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

One of my Favorites:
"You wouldn't worry so much about what people really thought of you if you knew just how seldom they actually do."

Some good thoughts

2005-12-02T09:31:00.000-08:00

I've decided that since I love quotes so much, that I would dedicate an entire blog to just my favorite quotes. Here are a few to start off with.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the 15 we do possess.
-Mark Twain

Life is like a Ballroom. If you hear a good song, you don't analyze it, You dance.
-The Golden Girls

God is refining us, fashioning us, and making us into the people with whom He wants to live forever.
-Charles Stanley

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard.